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	 <p> Anyone interested in this topic should consult Victoria Thompson, <span style="font-style: italic;">Death and Dying in Later Anglo-Saxon England</span>.  Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2001. </p>
	 
	 
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	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_96b.html#X20.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">20.01.01</a></b> One is allowed to celebrate Mass for a dead monk on the
	 third day [after his burial], and thereafter as the abbot wishes.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_96b.html#X20.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">20.02.01</a></b> For a good layman Mass may be celebrated on the third day
	 or after seven days.  For a penitent man Mass may be celebrated after thirty days or after seven,
	 if his kinsmen and relations fast for him and make some offering for his soul at God's
	 altar.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_97a.html#X20.03.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">20.03.01</a></b> According to the Romans it is customary to bear the body
	 of defunct men and pious men to church and anoint his breast with holy oil and celebrate Mass
	 for him, and then they take (the body) to the grave with chanting; when it is placed in the grave,
	 it is covered with earth. 
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_97a.html#X20.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">20.04.01</a></b> On the first day, the third, the ninth and the thirteenth day,
	 Mass may be celebrated for him, and afterward each [year: see Latin] if it is wished. 
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_97b.html#X21.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">21.04.01</a></a></b> Three Masses for dead laymen are celebrated each year, on the third day, 
	 the ninth day, and the thirtieth (MS reads thirteenth) day, for Christ rose from the
	 dead on the third day and in the ninth hour he gave up his spirit, and the children of 
	 Israel mourned Moses for thirty days.
	 </p>

	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_97b.html#X21.05.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">21.05.01</a></b> For monks, one may sing Mass every Sunday and recite their names.  
	 The Romans do not recite their names at Mass on Sunday.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_97b.html#X21.06.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">21.06.01</a></b> Dionysius the Areopagite said that he who celebrated Mass
	 for an evil man would commit a blasphemy against God. 
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98a.html#X21.07.02" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">21.07.01</a></b> Thereupon Augustine said that it (i.e., the saying of Masses)
	 were fitting to do for all Christian men, since either it were good for those who are dead, or it
	 comforted those praying and offering the sacrifice.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98a.html#X21.08.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">21.08.01</a></b> Whoever fasts for a dead man, it is profitable for himself;
	 only God knows what is appointed for the dead one.
	 </p>
	 <br/>
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	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_146b.html#B62.01.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B62.01.01</a></b> A bishop must not choose an abbot by himself after the
	 death of another, nor, [if] he [the abbot] be among the living [and] has gone away [because he]
	 has sinned. Nor may he appoint any other to that (position) without the consent of the
	 brothers.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_147b.html#B64.01.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B64.01.01</a></b> The animals that are torn by wolves and dogs are not to be
	 eaten by men but by swine and dogs, nor a hart nor a roe if they be found dead.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_147b.html#B64.02.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B64.02.01</a></b> The Greeks do not give swine dead flesh,  but they
	 allow the skin to be used for shoes and make use of the hide and the horns and the wool, but not
	 for anything of holiness. 
	 </p> 
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_147b.html#B64.03.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B64.03.01</a></b> And if it happens that swine eat dead flesh or hens
	 (drink) man's blood, we do not believe that they are to be thrown away on that account.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_149b.html#B70.01.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B70.01.01</a></b> If someone falls in his thoughts or goes out of his
	 mind, and it befalls him that he slay someone, then his kinsmen should pay for the
	 man and hold him liable for the other one (i.e., the kin pay the wergeld but hold the murder
	 liable for the dead man).
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_149b.html#B70.01.02" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B70.01.02</a></b> If someone slays another in (a fit of) insanity (or
	 unconsciously), before one knows whether his kinsmen wish to intercede for him, the men (sic;
	 "the man") who killed him should make compensation to his kinsmen for that man.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_151a.html#B76.05.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B76.05.01</a></b> He who often commits many capital sins, that is murder,
	 false oaths, and evil fornication with women and with animals, he must forsake those evid deeds and
	 go into a monastery and repent until his death.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_152a.html#B77.03.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B77.03.01</a></b> Penance of the loss of orders is death, but the soul lives.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_152b.html#B78.01.03" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B78.01.03</a></b> Whoever burns corn for the health of the living where dead men are buried must fast for 7 years.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_153a.html#B78.02.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B78.02.01</a></b> Swine who drink man's blood may be eaten.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_153a.html#B78.02.02" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B78.02.02</a></b> But if they tear dead men it is not permitted that they are to 
	 be eaten before a year has passed, so that that flesh has gone out from them. 
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_153a.html#B78.06.02" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B78.06.02</a></b> Whoever fasts for a dead man, that may well help him.
	 </p>
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	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_1a.html#Y41.03.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y41.03.00</a></b> Concerning those who yearn for repentance and "food for a journey" (that is, the body of
	 Christ) because of terror of death and concerning those for whom speech fails before his
	 confessor comes to him.  
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_2a.html#Y41.03.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y41.03.01</a></b> Of this it is needful, that the priest console a man so
	 disposed and hear his confession and especially not refuse him the Eucharist; and even though he
	 is so weighed down with sickness that he may not speak as he might have before, (then) if he have
	 witness of the men who are with him, so that he yearns for confession and the Eucharist, then the
	 priest should forgive him and grant him the last offices.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_1b.html#Y41.13.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y41.13.00</a></b> Concerning those to whom the Eucharist is forbidden and who die in that condition.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_4b.html#Y41.13.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y41.13.01</a></b> Concerning this thing, we do not know how we consider it any other way, except 
	 that it should be according to God's judgment.  For it was in God's power that he departed (died) 
	 without the Eucharist.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_4b.html#Y41.15.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y41.15.01</a></b> Here St. James prescribes that if any one is in an infirm
	 state, that he summon his priest to him and other servants of God, so that they read over him,
	 and the infirm one tell them his need and they anoint him in God's name with holy oil.  And
	 through the prayers of these faithful men, and through the anointing, he may become protected.
	 Lord will raise him up and if he is sinful they (his sins) will be forgiven him. <span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'Another version of this material appears in the Old English translation of the Regula of Chrodegang (XIX); Raith gives the OE text, p. 12, note 15.');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"/></span>
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	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_4b.html#Y41.15.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y41.15.02</a></b> Therefore ought any sinful man, if he is able, receive the
	 anointing and the last offices that pertain thereto.  For (concerning) each of those men who has
	 the last rites (offices), it is written that his soul as clean after his death as the soul of a child
	 who dies soon after baptism.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_6a.html#Y42.01.04" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.01.04</a></b> If anyone slay his child to death unwillingly
	 (accidentally), he it is to fast for 3 years, 1 on bread and water and 2 as his confessor instructs
	 him.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_6a.html#Y42.01.05" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.01.05</a></b> If a bishop or a masspriest slay someone, he it is to lose his rank.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_6a.html#Y42.02.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.02.01</a></b> If a woman destroys her child inside her with drink (a potion?) or 
	 with other various things, or murders it after it comes forth, she is to fast 10
	 years, 3 on bread and water and 7 as her confessor mercifully instructs her.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_6a.html#Y42.03.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.03.01</a></b> If any man kills his servant, and he has no testimony that he 
	 (the servant) did wrong, except that he killed him because of his rage and his
	 neglect, he is to fast for 2 years.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_6b.html#Y42.04.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.04.01</a></b> If any woman strikes her servant for some vile envy and
	 she dies from that (blow), and she (wifman) is innocent, the woman (hl&aelig;fdige) it is to fast
	 seven years.  If she has witness that she (the servant) were guilty, she is to fast 3 years.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_6b.html#Y42.05.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.05.01</a></b> (Concerning) the man who willingly slays himself with a weapon or at some
	 instigation of the devil: it is not permitted for anyone to sing mass for such a man, nor to commit
	 that body to the earth with any psalm-song.  
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_6b.html#Y42.05.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.05.02</a></b> The same judgment is to obtain for him who loses his life because of pain of his sins.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_7a.html#Y42.08.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.08.01</a></b>  The man who forsakes his lawful wife and takes another
	 is an adulterer; no priest is to give him the Eucharist or any of the rites that pertain to
	 Christian men, and if he should happen to die, do not bury him with Christians. And if the
	 woman forsakes her lawful husband and chooses another, she is to have the same judgment that it is
	 given above.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_7b.html#Y42.11.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.11.01</a></b> If any woman takes two brothers as husbands, one after
	 the other, they are to be separated, and they are to repent for as long as they live, as their
	 confessor instructs them.  And at their death the priest is to perform the rites for them as one
	 does for Christians if they promise that they will repent for a long time, if they live for a long
	 time.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_7b.html#Y42.11.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.11.02</a></b> If someone remains in such an evil marriage until the end of his life, we do 
	 not know how to instruct him (or her) in repentance, but it is left to God's judgment.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_8b.html#Y42.20.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.20.01</a></b> It is not now permitted for any Christian man that he marry more often than twice.  
	 For St. Paul forbids it in his teaching and instructs each man
	 how he should act concerning that thing. That it is, if any man's first wife if dead, that he may
	 lawfully take another, and if he outlasts that one, then he is afterwards to remain wifeless.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_8b.html#Y42.20.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.20.02</a></b> Likewise the woman, if death should come to her first
	 husband, by law she may take another if she wishes to do that.  If she outlives him, she is to
	 remain forever in widowhood as long as her life lasts.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_15b.html#Y44.13.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.13.01</a></b> If someone drives a stake into another man, he is to fast 3
	 years, 1 year on bread and water and for 2 years he is to fast 3 days each week on bread and
	 water and if the man is dead because of the stake, then he is to fast 7 years as it is written above.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_17a.html#Y44.23.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.23.01</a></b> If anyone shoots a deer with an arrow and it nevertheless escapes, and one finds 
	 it dead three days later and a dog or a wolf or fox or bear has gnawed it
	 or any other wild animal, no Christian man is to consume it.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_17a.html#Y44.24.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.24.01</a></b> If a wolf kills any sort of cattle and it is dead because of
	 that, no Christian man is to consume it. And if he does so, he is to fast 4 weeks on bread and
	 water; and if it lives and one kills it afterward, he is to enjoy it lawfully.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_17a.html#Y44.25.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.25.01</a></b> If any animal is strangled in a net, it is not permitted for 
	 anyone to use it.  If anyone uses it he is to fast 4 weeks every other day on bread and water.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_17a.html#Y44.26.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.26.01</a></b> If anyone find a dead fish in a fishpond and he eats it,
	 he is to fast 4 weeks on Wednesdays and Fridays on bread and water and the other days forgo
	 meat. And if one finds a dead fish in a stream, he may eat it lawfully.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_17b.html#Y44.32.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.32.02</a></b> It is said in another place that if a great deal of that food is
	 altogether (in which a small animal has died), one is to sprinkle it with holy water and eat if he
	 needs it, and that then (only) out of necessity.<span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'Raith notes the phrase \'in quo mus vel mustela immersa moritur,\' \'in which a mouse or a weasel is submerged,\' in the source, the Penitential of Theodore, Book 1, ch. 7.9. This sentence is translated more fully in the Scriftboc; see XYS26.04.01; see also 44.36.01 below.');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"/></span>
	 </p>    
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_19a.html#Y44.56.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.56.01</a></b> If any sort of creature fall into a water pit and one finds
	 it dead there, one is to scour the pit clean and sprinkle holy water on it.  And if anyone taste it
	 before that well is blessed, he is to fast 1 week on bread and water; if he does not know it, he is
	 to fast 1 day on bread and water. 
	 </p>
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	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_117.html#D54.05.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.05.01</a></b> If a layman slays another without fault, he is to fast 7
	 years on bread and water and 4 years as his confessor instructs him, and after that repentance of 7 
	 years, he is to repent his misdeeds diligently, to extent that he may; for it is unknown how
	 acceptable his penance were to God. <span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'Other manuscripts specify bread and	 water for 3 years, followed by 4 years of penance as the confessor instructs, not, as here, a	 penance of 7 years on bread and water.');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"/></span> 
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_117.html#D54.06.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.06.01</a></b> He who wishes to kill another and is unable to carry out
	 his wish fully is to fast for three years on bread and water and two years as his priest instructs
	 him and ever to repent his misdeeds. 
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_117.html#D54.07.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.07.01</a></b> If a layman slays a man out of necessity, he is to fast for
	 three years, one on bread and water, and two as his scrift instructs him. If it is a subdeacon (who
	 slays another), he is to fast for six years; if it is a deacon, he is to fast for seven years; if is a
	 masspriest, he is to fast for ten years and if a bishop, for twelve years and repent ever after.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_117.html#D54.08.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.08.01</a></b> If anyone smites his child to death unintentionally, he is to
	 fast for 5 years, 3 on bread and water as above. 
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_117.html#D54.09.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.09.01</a></b> If a bishop or a masspriest slays someone, he must forfeit
	 his rank and repent earnestly ever after. 
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_118.html#D54.10.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.10.01</a></b> If a woman kills her child while it is inside her, or after it
	 comes out, with drink or with diverse other things, she is to fast 10 years, three on bread and
	 water and seven as her priest mercifully teaches her, and repent it ever after. 
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_118.html#D54.11.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.11.01</a></b> If someone kill his servant without fault out of anger, he is to fast 3 years. 
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_118.html#D54.12.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.12.01</a></b> If a woman strikes her servant because of some vile 
	 enmity and she dies from that (blow), and she [the servant] is innocent, the woman [mistress] is
	 to fast 3 years and repent her misdeed ever after. <span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'A line has been omitted from the text so that a greater offense (killing an innocent servant, penance of 7 years) acquires the penance of a lesser one (striking a servant who is guilty, penance of 3 years); see Corpus 265, 54.12.01, which provides a penance of seven years for striking an innocent servant and three for killing a guilty one.');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"/></span>
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_118.html#D54.13.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.13.01</a></b> If a man intentionally slay himself with a weapon or at
	 some kind of demonic instigation, it is not permitted to sing mass for such a man, nor to commit
	 that body to earth with any psalms, nor to bury the body in a consecrated (purified) cemetery.
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_118.html#D54.13.02" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.13.02</a></b> One must reach the same judgment for him who loses his
	 life in punishment of his sins--that is, for the thief, the murderer, or betrayer of his lord. 
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.35.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.35.01</a></b> If someone destroy another with witchcraft, he is to fast
	 three years on bread and water, and for four years (fast) three days each week on bread and water
	 and repent ever after. 
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.36.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.36.01</a></b> If someone drive a stake into another he is to fast
	 three years, one year on bread and water and two (years) three days each week on bread and
	 water; and if he dies because of the stake, then he is to fast seven years as it is written here and
	 repent his offense ever after. 
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_118.html#D54.39.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.39.01</a></b> If anyone suffocates a child in sleep so that it dies, he is to
	 fast three years, one on bread and water and, for two years, three days in the week, and if it came
	 about through drunkenness, he is to repent more deeply, as his priest instructs, and repent that
	 ever after. 
	 </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.40.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.40.01</a></b> If an unhealthy child dies a heathen, responsibility for that
	 belongs to the priest. He is to forfeit his rank and repent it earnestly; and if it came about through
	 the negligence of friends, they are to fast for three years on bread and water and, for two years, three
	 days in the week and repent it ever after. 
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	 <b><a href="CORP201_122.html#D55.15.02" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">55.15.02</a></b> Let him visit with goods those who are sad in mind and sick, and bury the dead for 
	 the Love of God. Let him kneel often in secret places and prostrate himself on the earth and
	 fast and watch and pray often and frequently and fast and watch and pray earnestly day and
	 night and often and frequently. 
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